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Wendy and Lucy Review

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5.0

Dave White Profile

...sorrowful, minimalist... Read full review

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  • 4.0
    80

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    Metascore®
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  • 50

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter

    Michelle Williams does her best but she cannot prevent Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy, a weak tale about being broke and on the road in rural America, from dwindling into boredom.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Variety Scott Foundas

    "Old Joy" helmer Kelly Reichardt plays to her strengths in Wendy and Lucy, a modest yet deeply felt road movie about an idealistic young drifter, her faithful canine and the wide-open spaces of the Pacific Northwest.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    In a minimalist film of muted emotions, Michelle Williams gives as lovely a performance as a moviegoer could ask for.

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  • 88

    out of 100

    USA Today Claudia Puig

    An evocative film with a believable and subtly enthralling lead performance that gets deeply under your skin.

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  • 88

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    Another illustration of how absorbing a film can be when the plot doesn't stand between us and a character.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    The New York Times A.O. Scott

    What will happen to her? The strength of this short, simple, perfect story of a young woman and her dog is that this does not seem, by the end, to be an idle or trivial question. What happens to Wendy -- and to Lucy -- matters a lot, which is to say that Wendy and Lucy, for all its modesty, matters a lot too.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times

    Williams' performance is remarkable not only for its depth but for its stillness.

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  • 91

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    Wendy and Lucy is like "Lassie Come Home" directed by Antonioni. What's piercing about it, and also disturbing, is that Reichardt views the renunciation of society with something close to righteous purity -- as a lefty romantic dream.

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